Michele Guinness

About

Brought up in a practising Jewish family, and married to a retired Church of England minister, writer, regular broadcaster and speaker Michele Guinness worked in the UK media for many years. She retired to concentrate on writing and speaking and regularly contributes to local radio, and a number of magazines.

She has also written thirteen books. Her only novel, Archbishop, a thriller, set in 2024 tells the story of Vicky Burnham-Woods, the UK’s first female Archbishop of Canterbury. Her latest book, Guinness - The Untold Story tells the moving, often hair-raising story of the Grattan line of the family, interwoven with the real story of the brewers and bankers.

Books

Over the years Michele has written a number of books, looking at life from her uniquely Jewish perspective, with a large dollop of Jewish humour.

Her well-received debut novel, Archbishop became available in paperback in 2015.

Her latest book, Guinness - The Untold Story tells the moving, often hair-raising story of the Grattan line of the family, which she has ingeniously interwoven with the real story of the brewers and bankers, all of whom became a force for change across the globe.

Guinness - The Untold Story - Michele Guinness

Blog

Peter’s retirement has meant the fulfilment of a lifelong ambition – to spend a great deal more time in France. Her book, Autumn Leave, was a diary of a three month sabbatical in 2006, spent setting up a new home there.

Many people asked for a sequel. Here it is in the form of a blog or spiritual journal, where Michele explores life torn between two cultures, managing five acres and the French, grandparenting, revamping a marriage with a man about the house all day, loves and losses, creaking joints, and moving slowly but inexorably from autumn towards winter.

Michele Guinness